1979 Ballon d'Or

1979 Ballon d'Or
1979 Ballon d'Or winner Kevin Keegan in 1980
Date25 December 1979
Presented byFrance Football
Highlights
Won by Kevin Keegan (2nd award)
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1979 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to the English forward Kevin Keegan on 25 December 1979.[1] There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.[2]

Rankings

Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Kevin Keegan Hamburger SV England 118
2 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Bayern Munich West Germany 52
3 Ruud Krol Ajax Netherlands 41
4 Manfred Kaltz Hamburger SV West Germany 27
5 Michel Platini Saint-Étienne France 23
6 Paolo Rossi Perugia Italy 16
7 Trevor Francis Nottingham Forest England 13
Liam Brady Arsenal Republic of Ireland
9 Zbigniew Boniek Widzew Łódź Poland 8
Zdeněk Nehoda Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia
11 Kenny Dalglish Liverpool Scotland 7
Allan Simonsen Barcelona Denmark
13 Paul Breitner Bayern Munich West Germany 6
Kees Kist AZ Netherlands
15 Johnny Rep Saint-Étienne Netherlands 5
Tony Woodcock 1. FC Köln England
Hans Krankl Barcelona Austria
Safet Sušić FK Sarajevo SFR Yugoslavia
19 Uli Stielike Real Madrid West Germany 4
20 Marius Trésor Marseille France 3
21 João Alves Paris Saint-Germain Portugal 2
Franco Causio Juventus Italy
Gordon McQueen Manchester United Scotland
René van de Kerkhof PSV Eindhoven Netherlands
Bruno Pezzey Eintracht Frankfurt Austria
Simon Tahamata Ajax Netherlands
27 Juan Manuel Asensi Barcelona Spain 1
Trevor Brooking West Ham United England
Ronnie Hellström Kaiserslautern Sweden
Hansi Müller VfB Stuttgart West Germany
Antonín Panenka Bohemians 1905 Czechoslovakia
Walter Schachner Austria Wien Austria

References

  1. ^ "Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1979 - Kevin Keegan". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  2. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1979". RSSSF. 1 May 2005. Retrieved 6 July 2020.